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One Hundred Poems from the Japanese
One Hundred Poems from the Japanese | Kenneth Rexroth
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A collection of Japanese poems accompanied by their English translations
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This a gorgeous book. The sense, while reading, is visual. The poems are all so short, a compression of multi-meaning sparse impressions. Rexroth includes mini-biographies of each author in the back, which adds some needed weight for lost a reader like me. I don't know anything about Japanese, its poetry, or ancient history. I had no context for these. I enjoyed them, even if they didn't stick. I enjoyed looking at them.

TheBookHippie I read for FOODANDLIT JAPAN this tagged book I was fascinated with it! 1y
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dabbe Hello, gorgeous book-tolerating-on-my-side pup! 🖤🐾🖤 1y
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Graywacke @TheBookHippie looks lovely 1y
Graywacke @Leftcoastzen @batsy @dabbe @SqueakyChu Pepper thanks you all. And, @dabbe , she does tolerate a lot. 🙂 @Leftcoastzen - this book is about all I know about Rexroth. 1y
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Ōtomo No Yakamochi lived from 718 to 785.

This is a gorgeous book i‘ve had for ages and am finally working through. I don‘t have any context. I haven‘t read any Japanese poetry, and I have no clue what was happening in Japan when these poems were written.